Okay, so it has definitely been a slow start to winter, between too-dry October and too-wet November. But you know it will come around, right? Here are some choice pics from the #shredhood Instagallery to get you back in that mountain state of mind. Follow the "next" buttons to click through. Oh yeah, and feel free to join the part by tagging your mountain grams #shredhood!

The park-and-ride probably would have meant fewer cars on the road and in resort parking lots, less fuel burned and fewer accidents.

After facing strong opposition at a community hearing, Mt. Hood Meadows has rescinded its plan to develop a 179-parking-space park-and-ride across the street from the Mt. Hood General Store on Highway 35.

The ice caves of Sandy Glacier are beautiful, and they are melting. Photo courtesy of Uncage the Soul Productions and Off the Wall Media.

"Requiem of Ice," the new film from Portland-based Uncage the Soul Productions, doesn't just delve deep into the inner-most regions of the ice caves of Mount Hood's Sandy Glacier. It attempts to capture the character and voice of the glacier cave itself.

Glencoe High School racers display a widely-held feeling in this 2005 photograph.

This coming January, for the 25th year in a row, hundreds of high school skiers and their families will gather on Mount Hood to dress up in whacky costumes, ski fast, cheer each other on, feast on turkey and roast beef, and have fun on the mountain. It will be the final running of the Christine Cato Memorial Race, and a lot of people are going to miss it once it is over.

The latest collaboartion between Windells and High Cascade offers new options for park shredders - and for their parents.

Young snowboarders and skiers who love to shred the parks will have a whole new opportunity for improvement on Mount Hood this winter as High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Windells launch a new "Head to Hood" weekend freestyle program for riders 10-17 years old.

Between June-uary inversions and May blizzards, Mount Hood weather in 2013-14 was WEIRD.

KGW Meteorologist Rod Hill, who has been making forecasts in Portland since 1999, looked out at a packed crowd of weather buffs gathered for the 2014-15 winter forecast and grinned: "My main message to you this morning is simply going to be: We don't know!"